Thursday, 31 December 2015

“Dates that come around every year help us measure progress in our lives. One annual event, New Year's Day, is a time of reflection and resolution.”—Joseph Wirthlin

Even though the transformation in personal and business life happens through the changes WITHIN, irrespective of change in calendar years, now, this is the opportune time to plan for change. Instead of merely planning with wishes, it would be effective to look back , learn from the past and set the direction for the future.

Hence evaluate your 2015 in all aspects of life with the right questions. This may help to reinforce the good things you did, correct the bad things you did in 2015.Answering to the following questions may l help you to set the direction right on career / business / relationship / financial aspects.

Which initiatives worked well in business / professional career and which was not?

What motivated me last year and what drained my motivation level?

What factors improved / affected the quality of relationship with family members / peers/ subordinates / clients?

Which factors improved my personal financial success and what not?

What made me proud of my contributions to others?

Reflection is more powerful than any other form of learnings. Reflect on 2015 and move forward for great 2016 as each one of us in this earth are deserved for continuous growth..

Wishing you and your family & Business to achieve new growth, peace, happy new year 2016!

Friday, 25 December 2015

“Priority
management is the answer to maximizing our time “–John c Maxwell

For most of us, pressing need is how to manage
time. Even though there are best seller book and training session on time
management with many formats, techniques, they help to some extend on awareness
creation only. Those external driven factors may not be much more effective
as time management is more of “Internal driven”. It is not managing time,
it is about managing your temptation and emotions.

For
instance, If someone offers you a choice to get one cheque with valued Rs 1000 and another Rs 2000.
Obviously, most of us choose Rs 2000 cheque. In case, if it comes with a choice that Rs 1000 could be
cashed tomorrow and Rs 2000 could be cashed after a year, would your decision
remain same? Most of us in a real experiment
would decide to take Rs 1000, despite the fact that the second option is
a rationally better choice.

This
example demonstrates the temptation kicks in when immediate benefit is present,
we tend to take irrational decision.Our ability to take good decision
disappears when we see, short term benefits.The same is applicable when we prioritize
our IMPORTANT and URGENT work. We know very clearly what is important for us in
terms of growth and strive for doing
important things.When short term, immediate benefits come across our way like
emails, meeting, phone calls, entertainments, we become sensitive to urgent and
lose the focus on Important aspects.The attraction of small, short term pleasure
outweighs the big, long term, hard activities.

When we learn to manage those
temptations or emotion, we become master of time management. Be aware of your
emotions!

Sunday, 13 December 2015

“Every adversity, every failure carries with it the seeds of an equal or greater benefits”-Napoleon Hill

Adversity or difficult times happen in our life at any moment. The difficult moments can be losing job suddenly, losing dear ones, losing all earned money etc. Those moments make our life upside down and literally we may not have clue what would happen next. As it is beyond our control, we can not avoid and only option is to undergo the experience. Actually, those tough times only teach us a lot of valuable lesson about life. It brings loved one closer to us than ever before. It brings us a lot of time to introspect our past mistakes, which leads to difficult times. It makes us to think to handle the future different way .It brings out our real divine power within us and rise up as stronger than ever.

Let us look back your life; you might have come across so many difficult times in different point of time. Despite all those ,today you are .This is due to the powerful learning’s , courage, will power, divine energy you got from those tough times. Similarly, you look around any nation, which had undergone many tough times in the past and today it stands tall because adversity makes them stronger than before. Hence, adversity need to be looked at as part of life, that also will pass over a period of time .Real happiness is not in good times and it is on how we manage tough times and come up .Great time ahead after every adversity. That is the Law of Nature!

Tuesday, 1 December 2015

“Our duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea”.--Swami VivekanandaThe following true incident happened several years ago in Paris Opera House. A famous singer had been contracted to sing and all the arrangements were made and the all tickets were sold out.During the event day, before starting the program, there were feeling of anticipation and excitement among the fans. The Event manager took the stage and said “Ladies and Gentlemen, I am afraid that due to illness, the man whom we have booked will not be performing tonight. However, we have found a suitable substitute and we hope he will provide you a comparable entertainment experience”. The crowd shouted in disappointment and failed to hear the name of the person which was announced by the event manager. The total environment turned from excitement to frustration.. The new performer gave the performance everything he had. When he had finished, there was no reaction from the audience except silence. No one applauded and the performer about to step down from the stage. Suddenly, a little boy stood up and shouted, “Daddy, I think you have done a wonderful job, Love you so much”’. The crowd broke into thunderous applause and cheering.We all need people in our lives who are willing to stand up for us , once in a while and say “ I think you have done wonderful Job”. That makes a big difference!!!